The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02
\ NEW CONNECTION.
IMPORTANT LINE FOR FLORIDA.
To Connect with the Tallahassee
and Palatka Railroad.
The Birmingham. Georgia and Florida Railroad so~
Constructing u viii Cross Man, Other
Important Lines.
savannah News.

Among the numerous railways pro-
jected. under construction or in opera
tion with Birmingham a. "a terminus.
the new road. the Birmingham. Georgia
and Florida Railway i considered one
of the most important. This road. part
of which Is under actual construction.
embraces in il organization prominent
railroad capitalists of New York and
Baltimore, and locally is represented by
j. 4. Montgomery. r. T.. Earle. w. VI.
Behea. w. l.. Wright and 4. Il. Bethea.
The amount of stock required 10y law
has been taken and paid for. and the
formal organization il about to he per
fected when a president and other Off
Gers will be elected. Engineering par
ties will be at once placed in the field.
and the work of construction vigorously
prosecuted. The gentlemen having
charge of the project, the birmingham
Age SAYS. have been quietly at work for
several months and have secured valua-
bile franchises, subscriptions. rights of
way. etc. along the line of its route
through the States of Alabama. Georgia
and Florida. They control over 100000
acres of virgin pine lands, besides splen-
did properties i'm iron, coal and marble
districts. The capital stock Is - ,ooo. 600.
and arrangements have been made to
place the bonds in New York.
The road will pass through Leeds. Tai
ladega. West Point. Columbus. Cuthbert.
Bainbridge and Tallahassee. and will af
ford several connections with important
seaports ON the Atlantic aud Gulf coasts,
shorter by "a good many miles than any
now available.
The proposed read will connect with
the following important lines: At Leeds
with the Georgia Pacific and Georgia
Central: at Talladega. with the East
Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia and the
Admission and Atlantic; near Roanoke.
in Randolph county. with the Griffin. la
Grange and Western. affor,ling "A short
line to the. valuable distributing country
represented by Griffin, Monticello and
Athens. also with the Macon. L.atirange
and Birmingham. which, i'm connection
with the Savannah, Dublin and Macon. il
is claimed. will give the shortest line to
Savannah by 100 miles. At West Point
il will connect with the Western and At
lantic and with the Atlanta and West
Point roads. AT Columbus il forms con
nection with several important lines, the
Mobile and Girard. the Georgia Midland.
the Columbus and Carrolton and the
Georgia Central. At Cuthbert. with the
Southwestern Railroad of Georgia and
with the Fort Gaines road. At a point
Just below Cuthbert. il forms short
connection with the Brunswick and
Western road, making the distance
eighty-six miles shorter to Brunswick
than 10y any other route. AT Arlington
is another branch of the Southwestern
Railroad of Georgia. and at Bainbridge,
the head of navigation on the Flint river,
it connects with the Savannah. Florida
and Western system. and finally at Tai
lahassee by connection with the Florida
Railway and Navigation Company. :
lines affor.ling "A route to Tallahassee,
Tampa land thence by steamer to Key
West and Cuba shorter by 1:D miles
than any other now operating.